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Strum, Wisconsin City/Town : Latitude: 44.5496859, Longitude: -91.3926578
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| The Original Strum Seven Man Bicycle LEFT TO RIGHT:
Bud Brion, Roy Matson, Dick Ellifson, Doug Runkel, Java Bergerson, Arnold Gunderson, Bill Amundson
This is the famous SEVEN MAN BICYCLE......a major attraction at community parades around the Strum area and west central Wisconsin. A Strum product! Built in Strum by Jewel Berge, our Blacksmith, and crew.
This bicycle also appeared in the Fall 1964 Homecoming parade at the University of Minnesota. I was a student and resident of Frontier Hall Dormitory. I convinced my father to let me bring it to Minneapolis, that I had the guys in the dorm that could ride and manipulate this monster of a bike. Maybe a week before homecoming my friends and I and a Corvair with hitch made the trip to Strum, hooked up the bike and specially built trailer and made the trip back to Minneapolis. The stares along the way through Eleva, Mondovi, Durand, Prescott and then through the St. Paul-Minneapolis Metro area on U.S. Hiway 10........the stares were unreal!
Once we found a parking place for the bike back of the dorm, it was the local attraction around the dorm and Minneapolis campus for days. And then we practiced and the attraction grew. The bell, the air horn fed by that tank on the back of the bike.. A hit as you can imagine. .
This bike and our 7 guys, me being one, were the Frontier Hall entry in the Homecoming Parade. The parade angled down University Avenue on the Minneapolis Campus.....and we snaked this bike along the way, working hard to keep the back wheel on the center line and veering left and right with the front. It worked. We won first prize for all dormitory entries in the parade..........and the stares and hoots never quit!
What a great idea my fellow Strumites (or is it Strummers) had for promoting Steam Engine Days....and just about anything! Put a candidate for local or state office on something like this and the voters would never forget the person, just like the memory no doubt caused many a parade goer to never forget this entry in the parade and the NEED to get to Strum on Steam Engine Days each year.
NOTE: my father, Roy Matson is the second man from the left in this picture. All of these men are well known in the Strum area. In this picture, they obviously are riding in a parade (probably other than Strum) to promote the upcoming Steam Engine Days probably during the mid to late 1960's.
Written by Fred Matson |
| Threshing on the Pete Christianson Farm >>> about 1910. This is a 100 year old picture of threshing on the Pete Christianson Farm in 1910. The boy on the canopy is William Christianson. Walt Enger on the Engine with oil can. Hans Enger at the throttle. There would be threshing crews made up of farmers in the area that would go from farm to farm at harvest time. The wives would cook prepare lunch (two times a day) and dinner at noon. Food was excellent. |
| Threshing on the Pete Christianson Farm in 1910 This is a 100 year old picture of threshing on the Pete Christianson Farm in 1910. The boy on the canopy is William Christianson. Walt Enger on the Engine with oil can. Hans Enger at the throttle. There would be threshing crews made up of farmers in the area that would go from farm to farm at harvest time. The wives would cook prepare lunch (two times a day) and dinner at noon. Food was excellent. |
| Strand Hardware Store E. E. Strand Proprietor (right) & Roy Matson, Frequent Visitor
December 26, 1969
As we look at this picture we can see how the two seem to be talking about and focusing on that old National cash register. Note all the nuts and bolts options in the background. There were just as many on all the other walls and twice as much stuff in the back room. If you couldn't find what you needed here or at the other hardware store in town, further south on 5th Avenue, it probably didn't exist.
Strand Hardware was a common gathering point for people of all kinds in Strum. If you didn't need a bolt or nut or two and were in need of conversation that need could also be met. Roy Matson, my father, frequently took advantage of the pot belly stove talks. Elvin Strand is a brother of my great aunt Ruth (Garson) Strand's husband, Genhard. And anyone that grew up in or knows Strum also knows that Genhard was the local mortician, among other things. Strand Hardware was in the family for years beginning with Elvin and Genhard's dad, H. H. Strand.
In the late 1940s and 1950s when I was growing up in Strum the telephone office was two doors south of Strand Hardware with the post office in between, I believe. I clearly recall the day a Minneapolis business customer called our Millwork business on the east edge of town wanting to reach dad. The man was told that Roy wasn't there but was somewhere in town. Our local telephone operator was on the ball, intervened with the call, as you could and did even in those days, and promptly announced that she would conduct a community wide search for Mr. Matson. "Please hold". Within minutes and a few well placed local calls from the operator, whose name I shall withhold but who we all know was one or the other, Roy was found at Strand Hardware and connected to the totally astonished man from Minneapolis. That was customer service! The Strum telephone operator knew that Roy was probably at the Hardware store or a restaurant if he wasn't at the mill.
Fred Matson
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BirthMatches 1 to 37 of 37
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Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Birth |
Person ID |
1 |
Amundson Milla | 27 Jun 1870 | Strum, WI | I822 |
2 |
Halverson Albert | 05 Jul 1871 | Strum, WI | I225 |
3 |
Christianson Oluff | 1873 | Strum, WI | I188 |
4 |
Amundson Kaja | 09 May 1873 | Strum, WI | I823 |
5 |
Halverson Morris | 14 May 1873 | Strum, WI | I226 |
6 |
Amundson Tilla | 01 Jul 1876 | Strum, WI | I2348 |
7 |
Halverson Hannah | 24 Nov 1877 | Strum, WI | I227 |
8 |
Nelson Anton | 29 Mar 1882 | Strum, WI | I1751 |
9 |
Nelson Tilla | 12 Jan 1885 | Strum, WI | I1752 |
10 |
Amundson Elmer Julius | 16 Aug 1885 | Strum, WI | I1835 |
11 |
Amundson Thea Elvina | 04 Jul 1887 | Strum, WI | I1836 |
12 |
Nelson Oscar | 2 Dec 1887 | Strum, WI | I1753 |
13 |
Amundson Louise Caroline Christiana | 08 Feb 1890 | Strum, WI | I1837 |
14 |
Christianson Palmer | 1891 | Strum, WI | I173 |
15 |
Amundson Joseph Edwin | 29 Dec 1891 | Strum, WI | I1838 |
16 |
Christianson Mathilda | Apr 1892 | Strum, WI | I174 |
17 |
Amundson Kaja | 03 Jan 1894 | Strum, WI | I2350 |
18 |
Christianson Louise | 07 Mar 1894 | Strum, WI | I175 |
19 |
Nelson Clara | 28 Feb 1895 | Strum, WI | I1755 |
20 |
Christianson Mollie | Jun 1896 | Strum, WI | I176 |
21 |
Amundson Hannah | 08 Jul 1896 | Strum, WI | I2349 |
22 |
Nelson Hannah | 23 Feb 1898 | Strum, WI | I1756 |
23 |
Christianson Marshall | Mar 1898 | Strum, WI | I177 |
24 |
Amundson Wilhelm | 19 May 1898 | Strum, WI | I1841 |
25 |
Christianson Hilda | Mar 1900 | Strum, WI | I178 |
26 |
Christianson Oluf | 1902 | Strum, WI | I121 |
27 |
Christianson William | 16 Apr 1902 | Strum, WI | I4 |
28 |
Christianson Joseph | 1903 | Strum, WI | I3036 |
29 |
Christianson Louis | 1905 | Strum, WI | I179 |
30 |
Christianson Elmer | 1907 | Strum, WI | I180 |
31 |
Christianson Glorence | 1909 | Strum, WI | I3184 |
32 |
Christianson Phillip | 1910 | Strum, WI | I182 |
33 |
Christianson Palma | 2 May 1911 | Strum, WI | I3186 |
34 |
Christianson Vernie | 28 Aug 1913 | Strum, WI | I181 |
35 |
Christianson Leonard | 7 Jul 1920 | Strum, WI | I3144 |
36 |
Semingson D. | | | I600 |
37 |
Semingson P. | | | I3138 |
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DiedMatches 1 to 29 of 29
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Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Died |
Person ID |
1 |
Amundson Kaja | 03 Oct 1905 | Strum, WI | I2350 |
2 |
Halverson Ole | 16 0ct 1910 | Strum, WI | I219 |
3 |
Amundson Louise Caroline Christiana | 18 Jan 1921 | Strum, WI | I1837 |
4 |
Amundson Joseph Edwin | 22 Mar 1927 | Strum, WI | I1838 |
5 |
Amundson Tilla | 13 Mar 1937 | Strum, WI | I2348 |
6 |
Halverson Hermine | 02 Aug 1938 | Strum, WI | I222 |
7 |
Amundson Wilhelm | 06 Dec 1938 | Strum, WI | I1841 |
8 |
Christianson Mollie | 1941 | Strum, WI | I176 |
9 |
Langlo Karen Julianne | 1941 | Strum, WI | I120 |
10 |
Amundson Anne | 10 Dec 1944 | Strum, WI | I838 |
11 |
Christianson Peter | 08 Jul 1945 | Strum, WI | I92 |
12 |
Halverson Ole | 21 Dec 1945 | Strum, WI | I224 |
13 |
Amundson Christian | 09 Feb 1949 | Strum, WI | I821 |
14 |
Langlo Anne Gurina | 25 May 1949 | Strum, WI | I93 |
15 |
Eide Caroline | 09 Sep 1952 | Strum, WI | I1834 |
16 |
Halverson Martha | 19 Dec 1954 | Strum, WI | I223 |
17 |
Amundson Milla | 14 Aug 1955 | Strum, WI | I822 |
18 |
Amundson Elmer Julius | 06 Jun 1970 | Strum, WI | I1835 |
19 |
Bergerson Odell | 01 Dec 1972 | Strum, WI | I243 |
20 |
Christianson William | 05 Mar 1978 | Strum, WI | I4 |
21 |
Amundson Thea Elvina | 01 Jan 1980 | Strum, WI | I1836 |
22 |
Skoyen Clara | 09 Jul 1982 | Strum, WI | I254 |
23 |
Amundson Hannah | 01 Mar 1984 | Strum, WI | I2349 |
24 |
Christianson Louis | 1986 | Strum, WI | I179 |
25 |
Olson Spencer | 5 Sep 1991 | Strum, WI | I801 |
26 |
Johnson Alma | 2 Mar 2005 | Strum, WI | I1579 |
27 |
Hoff Esther | 2 Mar 2012 | Strum, WI | I3151 |
28 |
Christianson Vernie | 25 Jun 2013 | Strum, WI | I181 |
29 |
Halverson Dennis Bert | 26 Jan 2016 | Strum, WI | I1581 |
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